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Reporter/Marie Bakken READING CLUB SCHOLARSHIPS—Courtney Kellar and Jon Rek have received the $1,000 Bootsie Peebles Memorial Scholarships for 2009. From left are club second vice-president Elizabeth Holloway, Kellar, Rek and club treasurer Annette Stone. Paulsen, a registered nurse, is a Texas A&M graduate who is employed in the intensive care unit at Scott & White Hospital, Temple. Rek is an A&M honor graduate presently enrolled as a doctor of pharmacy candidate at The University of Texas and an intern with HEB Pharmacy in Austin. Stone said since 1969 the reading club has awarded $21,000 to 42 students.